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Dear California Air Resources Board,

Your proposed amendments to California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard
must be reconsidered, as they are an inaccurate correction to our
climate policy. The program subsidizes dirty-burning, and habitat
destroying, combustion biofuels with billions of dollars per year
and must not be included in our toolkit of climate policies for the
2020s. There is too much on the line for our climate to make
missteps in this critical program. 

Your budget proposes significant delays and cuts of hundreds of
millions of dollars to vital zero-emission transportation programs,
which makes it all the more urgent to use the Low Carbon Fuel
Standard to more fully support zero-emissions transportation.
Historically, California has devoted $3 to 4 billion from the LCFS
each and every year to combustion technology. This must not
continue if we are to anchor our transition to a zero-emissions
future. 

The world has changed a lot since the implementation of the LCFS in
2009. Today, we have a north star goal for our climate and the air
we breathe: zero emissions transportation.  Continuing to invest
the billions in revenue from the LCFS into harmful and polluting
biofuels that end up combusted, instead of electric vehicles
powered by clean energy, hampers our efforts to fight the climate
crisis while enriching oil companies and industrial agriculture. 

I urge you to correct your course and modernize the program by
reflecting your consensus that the only way to meet air quality
standards is through eliminating combustion altogether, not adding
big dollar incentives for combustion every year. By focusing on
real air pollution solutions, you could add a clean air multiplier
to the credits system, especially for public fleets that transport
many people at once, would deliver major benefits for California's
air quality and throw a lifeline to cash-strapped transit agencies
that low-income Californians depend on for mobility. 

California cannot meet our clean air and climate goals without
harnessing the power of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard and
overhauling this multibillion-dollar program for our zero emissions
future. Please act expeditiously to reform the program to achieve
our state's ambitious goals.

Sincerely,
Kevin Leung
11690 Spruce Run Dr  San Diego, CA 92131-3722